Data Engineering Jobs in the South East

Data Engineering
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 209 244
Rank change year-on-year +55 +35 +4
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 175 200 166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.85% 1.15% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 1.38% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 54 71 74
10th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £46,800
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £78,750 £70,000 £76,942
% change year-on-year +12.50% -9.02% -3.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Data Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,709 14,487 13,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 92.03% 83.62% 94.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4,196 10,016 7,809
10th Percentile £29,500 £27,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the South East

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in the South East.

Salary trend for Data Engineering in the South East

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the South East over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in the South East

Data Engineering
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineering within the South East region over the 6 months to 28 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +58 115 £75,000 +11.11% 364
Berkshire +111 93 £69,500 -0.71% 236
Surrey +57 33 £70,000 +27.27% 79
Buckinghamshire -5 20 £85,000 -2.86% 80
Middlesex - 10 - - 1
Hampshire +59 9 £72,500 +3.57% 133
Kent +22 6 £87,500 +29.63% 80
East Sussex +12 2 - - 42
Oxfordshire +2 2 £65,000 +44.44% 49
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 32 (18.29%) SharePoint
2 16 (9.14%) Apache Spark
2 16 (9.14%) IBM Domino
3 7 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (3.43%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 122 (69.71%) Azure
2 44 (25.14%) Power Platform
3 43 (24.57%) GCP
4 42 (24.00%) AWS
5 35 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 34 (19.43%) Snowflake
7 32 (18.29%) PowerApps
8 26 (14.86%) Power Automate
9 20 (11.43%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (8.57%) Vertex AI
11 14 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (7.43%) Azure API Management
13 7 (4.00%) GitHub
13 7 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (3.43%) OpenShift
15 4 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
16 3 (1.71%) Datadog
17 2 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
17 2 (1.14%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.57%) ADSL2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (41.14%) Data Warehouse
2 63 (36.00%) Data Lake
3 44 (25.14%) Power BI
4 40 (22.86%) Big Data
5 28 (16.00%) Metadata
6 27 (15.43%) Tableau
7 25 (14.29%) Data Mining
8 18 (10.29%) NoSQL
9 16 (9.14%) Hadoop
10 15 (8.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 12 (6.86%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (4.57%) Delta Lake
13 7 (4.00%) Apache Iceberg
14 6 (3.43%) Apache Hudi
14 6 (3.43%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 3 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
15 3 (1.71%) Relational Database
15 3 (1.71%) SQL Server
16 2 (1.14%) Metadata Repository
16 2 (1.14%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 6 (3.43%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.57%) ER Studio
2 1 (0.57%) ERwin
2 1 (0.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.57%) MLflow
2 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 91 (52.00%) Law
2 77 (44.00%) Social Skills
3 36 (20.57%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (16.57%) Retail
5 21 (12.00%) Finance
6 6 (3.43%) Automotive
6 6 (3.43%) Banking
7 5 (2.86%) Retail Banking
8 4 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.14%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.14%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.57%) Aviation
10 1 (0.57%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 94 (53.71%) Lead
2 72 (41.14%) Senior
3 35 (20.00%) Data Engineer
4 15 (8.57%) Senior Data Engineer
4 15 (8.57%) Software Engineer
5 10 (5.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 10 (5.71%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 9 (5.14%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (5.14%) Data Analytics Director
7 8 (4.57%) Lead Data Engineer
8 6 (3.43%) Azure Data Engineer
9 5 (2.86%) Data Manager
9 5 (2.86%) Lead Software Engineer
10 4 (2.29%) Architect
10 4 (2.29%) Developer
10 4 (2.29%) Engineering Manager
10 4 (2.29%) Python Data Engineer
10 4 (2.29%) Python Engineer
10 4 (2.29%) Senior Software Engineer
11 3 (1.71%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (12.00%) Kafka
2 14 (8.00%) .NET
3 10 (5.71%) Middleware
4 7 (4.00%) PySpark
5 6 (3.43%) PyArrow
6 5 (2.86%) React
7 4 (2.29%) REST
8 3 (1.71%) ASP.NET
8 3 (1.71%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.71%) RESTful
9 2 (1.14%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.14%) Apache Jena
9 2 (1.14%) CSS
9 2 (1.14%) HTML
9 2 (1.14%) Next.js
9 2 (1.14%) NumPy
9 2 (1.14%) Pandas
9 2 (1.14%) Tailwind CSS
9 2 (1.14%) XML
10 1 (0.57%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.86%) Algorithms
2 17 (9.71%) Cloud Native
3 11 (6.29%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.57%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.71%) AS400
6 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.57%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.43%) Unix
2 2 (1.14%) Linux
3 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (66.86%) Analytics
2 79 (45.14%) Data Governance
3 71 (40.57%) Data Science
4 70 (40.00%) Agile
5 67 (38.29%) Business Intelligence
5 67 (38.29%) DevOps
6 64 (36.57%) Data Management
7 62 (35.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 61 (34.86%) Data Modelling
9 58 (33.14%) Use Case
10 54 (30.86%) Data Architecture
11 53 (30.29%) ETL
12 46 (26.29%) Mentoring
13 45 (25.71%) CI/CD
14 43 (24.57%) Data Analytics
15 40 (22.86%) Machine Learning
16 39 (22.29%) Problem-Solving
17 38 (21.71%) Data Pipeline
18 37 (21.14%) Artificial Intelligence
18 37 (21.14%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 102 (58.29%) SQL
2 91 (52.00%) Python
3 29 (16.57%) Java
4 28 (16.00%) C#
5 16 (9.14%) T-SQL
6 9 (5.14%) Scala
7 8 (4.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (4.57%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.71%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.71%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.14%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.14%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.57%) R
10 1 (0.57%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 78 (44.57%) Degree
2 15 (8.57%) Azure Certification
3 11 (6.29%) AWS Certification
3 11 (6.29%) Master's Degree
4 10 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.71%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (41.14%) Data Quality
2 32 (18.29%) Accessibility
3 30 (17.14%) QA
4 10 (5.71%) GDPR
5 9 (5.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.14%) Dublin Core
System Software
1 7 (4.00%) HDFS
2 1 (0.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.71%) Grafana
2 3 (1.71%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 74 (42.29%) Microsoft
2 42 (24.00%) Databricks
3 26 (14.86%) ServiceNow
4 25 (14.29%) Google
5 15 (8.57%) OpenAI
6 7 (4.00%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.43%) Informatica
8 3 (1.71%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.14%) Oracle
9 2 (1.14%) SAP
9 2 (1.14%) Talend
10 1 (0.57%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.57%) Foundry
10 1 (0.57%) Palantir